Legacy Systems Contracts in the South West

Legacy System
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 144 143
Rank change year-on-year +52 -1 -17
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 19 13 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.13% 0.41% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.89% 1.23% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 21
10th Percentile £474 £425 £400
25th Percentile £584 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £465 £465
Median % change year-on-year +34.41% - -2.11%
75th Percentile £688 £594 £513
90th Percentile £729 - £525
England median daily rate £575 £550 £556
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.12% +1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.50 - -
Median hourly rate £33.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.25 - -
90th Percentile £35.70 - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £15.79 £57.50
% change year-on-year +127.99% -72.54% +108.50%

All Generic Skills
South West

Legacy Systems falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 489 1,056 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.14% 33.01% 28.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 647 702
10th Percentile £263 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% -0.91% +10.11%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £656
90th Percentile £676 £694 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 166 138
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.65 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +359.18% -80.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £83.34
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in the South West

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in the South West

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in the South West

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in the South West

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Systems within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire - 10 £700 - 5
Gloucestershire +17 4 - - 5
Somerset - 3 £625 -
Devon +9 1 £500 +7.53% 5
Dorset +4 1 £425 +30.77% 2
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) GCP
2 3 (15.79%) Google Workspace
3 2 (10.53%) Apple Pay
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Google Pay
4 1 (5.26%) AWS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Extranet
1 1 (5.26%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Data Mining
1 3 (15.79%) Tableau
2 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Postman
General
1 9 (47.37%) Banking
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Billing
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Analyst
1 7 (36.84%) Architect
2 5 (26.32%) Business Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Banking Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Banking Business Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Data Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Digital Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Digital Business Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Data Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Digital Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.53%) IT Support
6 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Information Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) IT Support Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Payments Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) D3.js
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Management Information System
2 6 (31.58%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (5.26%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) Migration
3 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.79%) Conceptual Models
4 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
4 3 (15.79%) Data Management
4 3 (15.79%) Data Science
4 3 (15.79%) Data Strategy
4 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (15.79%) Database Optimisation
4 3 (15.79%) Logical Data Model
4 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (15.79%) Project Management
4 3 (15.79%) Security Patching
4 3 (15.79%) Software Licensing
4 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
5 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (10.53%) Data Migration
5 2 (10.53%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Google
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) Oracle
3 3 (15.79%) Salesforce
4 2 (10.53%) Apple
4 2 (10.53%) SAP
4 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.26%) QAD